Conservatives threaten to tank House budget vote needed to advance Trump agenda

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11. He does want both, as do many others

It could be done by simply eliminating Medicare or something. It's actually a very typical perspective of the traditional Republican Party. In our enlightened era we simply do half of it, cut way back on taxes by adding to the debt, been going on 25 years. If we bitch they toss us some Earned Income Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit. We love giving handouts to the poors instead of raising the min wage. Gives tons of jobs to sociology majors who are otherwise unemployable. Secures the votes of the poors. We also get tax breaks for the upper middle class, like SALT, and credits for Teslas.